Established small cap manager now offers international and
emerging markets strategies

May 21, 2014 05:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northern Lights Capital Group, LLC (“Northern Lights”) and WHV
Investment Management (“WHV”) announced today their investment in EAM
Investors (“EAM”), a California-based manager which focuses on small and
micro-cap equities. Northern Lights and WHV will be teaming up with EAM
to grow its international business, consisting of international small
cap, emerging markets small cap, and international micro cap equity
strategies.

EAM currently manages $987 million and was founded in 2007 by Travis
Prentice, Montie Weisenberger, and Josh Moss, who all have managed small
and micro-cap portfolios for institutional clients for over twelve years.

“We’re excited to partner with the team at EAM, and believe they bring a
distinctive perspective to international small cap and emerging markets
small-cap equities,” said Paul Greenwood, managing director at Northern
Lights. “They have a strong, investment-centric culture and are
dedicated to their investment process, something we look for in every
Northern Lights partnership.”

“We look for innovative products with time-tested methodologies and
established track records to maximize the value of applying our
distribution horsepower,” said WHV CEO Andrew Turner. “EAM exhibits
those qualities and has a highly differentiated and sustainable
philosophy and process in a space where high alpha is achievable.”

“The partnership with Northern Lights and WHV brings considerable
resources and an extensive, experienced team to our efforts,” said Mr.
Prentice, who is also CIO of EAM. "In addition, our firms share the same
vision of what it takes to be successful in the investment management
business."

EAM’s investment process seeks to capitalize on positive fundamental
change by taking advantage of investor biases and market inefficiencies.
Through its objective and disciplined investment process, the team looks
for opportunities where other investors may be slow to react to a
company’s improving financial outlook.

“Our investment process was built specifically to capture alpha in
inefficient markets where there are a large number of possible
investments, high cross-sectional volatility, and sparse analyst
coverage,” said Mr. Moss, who is also portfolio manager at EAM. “Through
our experience, we believe our approach has the right blend of
objectivity and focused research to exploit the entire opportunity set
present in emerging and developed international equity markets.”

EAM creates diversified portfolios built within a bottom-up, risk-aware
framework that is unconstrained to specific benchmark sectors or country
weights. EAM will be offering international small cap, emerging markets
small cap, and international micro cap equity strategies.

WHV Investment Management is a multi-boutique asset management firm
providing sophisticated investment strategies through both separately
managed accounts and mutual funds. With partnership at the core of our
business, our equity ownership model allows us to be closely aligned
with our asset managers, as well as our clients. We strive to provide
timely and innovative solutions to help our clients meet their
investment goals. Please visit www.whv.com
for additional information.

About EAM Investors

EAM Investors, LLC is a majority-employee-owned, institutionally-focused
investment boutique founded in 2007. Our core strength is managing
equity portfolios in markets where inefficiencies create significant
opportunity for our active management style to add alpha. We currently
manage equity portfolios in the U.S. and International small cap and
micro-cap markets. EAM Investors, LLC (“EAM”) is an investment adviser
registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940. For more information please visit www.eaminvestors.com.